Get off Interstate 15 onto Orem's Center Street. Travel east until you get to 700 West. Turn left. Turn right on 40 North, which a block later curves into 600 West.

Welcome to Bonnie and/or Clyde, Utah.

They're not cities, neighborhoods or historical sites. They're not even families living in the quiet central Orem neighborhood. Orem City Manager Jim Reams guessed they were a creation of an attention-seeking individual, and a local post office supervisor thought this reporter wasn't all there when he heard the query. To most people, Bonnie and Clyde remain the lawless duo who terrorized law enforcement through the southwest in the early 1900s.

But to MapQuest, Google and dozens of index sites to buy used cars or real estate or search for a school, library or hospital, Bonnie and Clyde are real enough to advertise.

How Bonnie and Clyde found immortality in Utah is a mystery. Type "Clyde, Utah" or "Bonnie, Utah" into Google, and you'll get plenty of hits for both. At the top of both are links to different maps to get there. GoogleMaps will send you to the Orem City Center, while MapQuest's directions end at a church in an Orem neighborhood.

The maps come from third-party vendors, who get their information from a number of sources, including the U.S. Post Office, the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Geological Survey, according to Tele Atlas, the company supplying MapQuest.

The post office, for example, lists both Bonnie and Clyde under the ZIP codes 84057 and 84058, but also lists them as not accessible. They are in the database, but a letter mailed to "Bonnie, UT 84057" wouldn't make it.

Ron Hubrich, the consumer affairs manager for the Postal Service in Utah, said it's possible the two are aliases that just aren't recognized as serviceable.

"I guess Bonnie is something," he said, noting the ZIP code classification. But that didn't clear up the confusion. "I've never heard of either one of these."

Searching for Bonnie or Clyde in the census records comes up empty. Pat Rodriquez, an information services technician with the Denver office of the U.S. Census Bureau, couldn't find them listed anywhere. The census does tabulate data for areas other than cities, including unincorporated regions of a certain size and even neighborhoods and block groups. Bonnie and Clyde fit into none of those categories.

"I'm not really sure what those are," she said.

In the Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System, both are recognized as populated places, and both entered into the system on Feb. 25, 1989. The classification is U4, which means the place is entirely within the boundaries of an incorporated area, such as Harlem or Greenwich Village in New York City.

One difference, though, is pulling up Harlem on the GNIS Web site reveals latitude, longitude, a map and elevation for a few of the entries. Pull up Bonnie or Clyde, and there's a long line of "unknowns" across the column.

The other difference is people have heard of Harlem and Greenwich Village. No one in Utah -- Realtors, city employees, residents -- have heard of Bonnie or Clyde.

Except, of course, the Bonnie and Clyde, causing one to wonder -- is it another moneymaking schemefi A modern-day rebel skirting the law by hacking into systemsfi

Who knowsfi This reporter sure doesn't.

Heidi Toth can be reached at 344-2543 or htoth@heraldextra.com.

This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page A1.